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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-17-06 04:09 AM
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2. The first and most effective action would be to get all the money out of
the system. As long as any private money is allowed to play in politics, there will be graft and corruption. Whether it is lobbyists buying votes for their clients, or office holders selling their support to the highest bidder, it will have a detrimental effect on our political system.

Requiring that legislation be limited to a single issue would help to reduce the rampant pork, and obviates the perceived need for a line item veto.

Forbidding former office holders from working in any field that they had regulatory influence over while in government service for a period of 5 - 10 years would virtually eliminate this form of corruption.

Three things that would completely transform our politics and our government, and two of them cost nothing to work.
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